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World Service,13 May 1998,28 mins

The Memoirs of Sayyida Salme

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'Her memoirs are without parallel in 19th century East African history' The story of Sayyida Salme, born a Muslim princess in Zanzibar who eloped with a trader and lived most of her life as Emily Ruete, a widow with three children in exile in Germany.

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